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‘Give farmers more freedom in how they reduce nitrogen’06 January 2022In his inaugural lecture Professor of Environmental Sustainability Jan Willem Erisman calls for local solutions that give people more freedom in how t...
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'Better to take action today, than to deal with the damage tomorrow'05 November 2021It’s better to cut our nitrogen emissions now than to solve the consequences later at great expense. That’s the lesson we can learn from the Dutch nit...
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CO2-reduction and economic growth: can they go hand-in-hand?27 October 2021Fearing a trade-off with economic growth, countries feel discouraged to cut their CO2 emissions. But do the two really not go together? Environmental ...
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Building materials drive carbon emissions, and they’re set to grow21 October 2021A new study from Leiden researchers shows that the carbon emissions of building materials are set to grow if we do not act rapidly. Even with known in...
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Leiden Mayor Lenferink gets his feet dirty for opening Polderlab Oud Ade10 September 2021On Thursday 9 September, the mayor of Leiden officially launched a unique ten-year research project in the polder near Oud Ade. During a festive openi...
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Unique research project in polder Oud Ade02 September 2021From 9 September onwards, Leiden scientists, citizens and farmers will jointly investigate how to sustainably manage peat meadowland. In ten years' ti...
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Widespread cultural diffusion of knowledge started 400,000 years ago20 July 2021Different groups of hominins probably learned from one another much earlier than was previously thought, and that knowledge was also distributed much ...
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PhD Researcher Anastasia Nikulina Wins Nick Ryan Bursary Award 202123 June 2021To honour the work of its longstanding chair Nick Ryan, CAA International provides the annual Nick Ryan Bursary Award. The Nick Ryan Bursary Award win...
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Liveable Communities: project with a sustainable outlook31 May 2021With the Liveable Communities – Liveable Planet project, Marja Spierenburg, Professor of Anthropology of Sustainability and Livelihood, is showing tha...
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'Climate issues and sustainability should be part of every study programme'20 May 2021Having lectures on sustainability when you're a first-year student of Law, or a course on climate change when you're studying Public Administration ma...
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How nature boosts the health of city residents10 May 2021Your local city park may be improving your health, according to a new paper led by Leiden environmental scientist Roy Remme. In Proceedings of the Nat...
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An artistic view on the hidden fungi in the soil03 May 2021Music from a compostable cello, photographs and scents of fungi and a woven tapestry. With her upcoming multimedia project Super Organism, visual arti...
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A circular economy is about much more than just recycling01 February 2021It’s Circular Economy Week, from 1 to 6 February. But what is it that makes an economy circular? And just how circular is our university? René Kleijn,...
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Report: what does our urban mine have to offer?21 January 2021On 21 January, the Institute of Environmental Sciences (CML) has released two reports on circular economy and urban mining in the Netherlands. In them...
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Nutrient-rich water is heaven for disease-spreading mosquitoes17 November 2020When mosquito eggs hatch in nutrient-rich water, the mosquitoes are larger and they can also fly further. That is the first conclusion of a study from...